GENERAL
- Always remember on new characters to open up your options and set them the way you like them. Pay special attention to the UI options that give you choices for your middle bottom, left and right vertical quickbars; as well as the placement of your companions skills in this setup. I move my companion skills to the left since I have never used a left side toolbar in any MMO effectively. Also take a good look at social options, specifically the "Allow same class story instances" option. This will allow other players who are the same class as you to group up and do your class story instances.
- In Warzone PVP, remember at the end of the match to vote for who you feel is the MVP of the match in your faction. MVP votes add extra warzone commendations! I found that many people left votes unused, which are just wasted PVP commendations.
- Space Combat & PVP Warzones in tandem can generate large amounts of XP and credits.
- When you are starting a new character, reach around level 2. At this point, if you know how to reach it, head for your starter world's shuttle to the Republic or Imperial Fleet. Once there, talk to all 14 crafting trainers. You don't have to take your three crafting skills yet, but it would be wise to take at least one and talk to the trainer, after picking up the crafter tutorial in front of the starter planet arrivals elevator on your spacedock. Talking to all 14 trainers and taking one skill and talking to the trainer that gave you that skill again to complete your crafting tutorial mission will net you 14x250 experience plus around another 1k experience from the tutorial. If you come in at level 2, you'll leave at level 4.5 without barely batting an eyelash.
(Note: Scavenging might be usable on a starter world like Hoth that has a large robot MOB population)
- Datacrons, make sure you check the Datacron's Post for locations of each Datacron for the different planets. At least 3 can be found on each different world.
@ level 10 you can start doing the Warzone PvP events. Then as you aquire accommodations buy the top level PvP box and sell it back to the PvP vendor for credits (30 accommodations = 1200 credits). Do to a bug with the Buy Back system (counts items in buy back towards unique loot limits) it will only allow you to do this once unless you clear your Buy Back items list by selling 9 items to the vendor and buying them back. This has been patched and you can no longer sell PVP items for credits.
SNIPERS
- Here is a pretty informative post on how to spec out a sniper: Snipers of the Old Republic
